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How To Use inexpedient In A Sentence

• According to Damascene (De Fide Orth. iii, 24), "to pray is to ask becoming things of God"; wherefore it is useless to pray for what is inexpedient, according to James 4: 3, "You ask, and receive not: because you ask amiss. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
• an inexpedient tactic
• It was thenceforth no longer a question of whether this or that theorem was true, but whether it was useful to capital or harmful, expedient or inexpedient, in accordance with police regulations or contrary to them.
• Exactly how they "strafed" the immoral and ubiquitous Hun submarine it is inexpedient to say. Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories
• It would be inexpedient to inform them at this stage.
• We Marxists consider the tactic of individual terror inexpedient in the tasks of the liberating struggle of the proletariat as well as oppressed nationalities.
• The whole scheme was premature and inexpedient.
• It was inexpedient for him to be seen to approve of the decision.
• What Burke means by compromise, and what every true statesman understands by it, is that it may be most inexpedient to meddle with an institution merely because it does not harmonise with 'argument and logical illation.' On Compromise
• SOCRATES: The words axumphoron (inexpedient), anopheles (unprofitable), alusiteles (unadvantageous), akerdes (ungainful). Cratylus